'
The 'old man of the mountains' with whom the author compares Nizam-
ud-din (or at least the original 'old man of the mountains', Shaikh-
ul Jabal), was Hasan-ibn-Sabbah (or, us-Sabbah), who founded the sect
of so-called Assassins in the mountains on the shores of the Caspian,
and flourished from about A.D. 1089 to 1124. Hulaku the Mongol broke
the power of the sect in A.D. 1256 (Thatcher, in _Encycl. Brit._,
11th ed., 1910, s. v. 'Assassin').
14. Shams-ud-din Iltutmish, who had been a slave, reigned from A.D.
1210 to 1235. His Turkish name is variously written as Yulteemush,
Altamsh, Alitmish, &c. The form Iltutmish is correct (_Z.D.M.G._,
1907, p. 192). His tomb is discussed _post_.
15. This is not quite accurate. A similar _minar_, or mosque tower,
built in the middle of the thirteenth century, formerly existed at
Koil in the Aligarh district (_A.S.R._, i. 191), and two mosques at
Bayana in the Bharatpur State, have each only one _minar_, placed
outside the courtyard (ibid., vol. iv, p. ix). Chitor in Rajputana
possesses two noble Hindoo towers, one about 80 feet high, erected in
connexion with Jain shrines, and the other, about 120 feet high,
erected by Kumbha Rana as a tower or pillar of victory.
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